Accused meth dealer comments on Facebook about her pending arrest

LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Alexa Danielle Montenaro knew her arrest was coming and knew it would be Tuesday at the courthouse.

She's not clairvoyant.

Montenaro, 26, read her name online in a Journal & Courier story about her and her co-defendants, who are accused of dealing meth.

Montenaro posted on the Journal & Courier's Facebook page that she had been in the apartment where meth was sold. But she disputed the probable cause affidavit that accused her of patting down an undercover officer while checking for a recording device. She also said she did not know two of her co-defendants — Kimberly S. Hart, 33, West Lafayette, and Allen Gordon Faurote, 32, West Lafayette.

Little did Montenaro know that the day Hart, Faurote and a third co-defendant, Alejandro Briar Saucedo, 27, Rensselaer, were arrested, prosecutors charged her with possession of synthetic marijuana, possession of controlled substance and public intoxication for a Sept. 8 incident that landed her in jail. On this case, she posted a $500 bond and was released from jail, according to Montenaro's post and jail records.

Prosecutors also charged her on Oct. 5 with conspiracy to deal meth, dealing meth, possession of meth and maintaining a common nuisance. Those are for undercover buys in November 2015 that Hart, Faurote and Saucedo were arrested for on Oct. 10 and Oct. 11.

The delay between the buys and the charges is a point that Montenaro also commented about on the Journal & Courier's Facebook page, but because of her language, it was removed from the public's eye.

"This is craziness," she wrote. "Two f...ing years later."

Responding to one of her friend's questions on her Facebook page, Montenaro said she had a petition to revoke probation hearing Tuesday.

"No doubt I'll be arrested at the courthouse when I go," Montenaro wrote on her page.

She was right.

Montenaro's arrest is part of the drug task force's ongoing roundup of suspected drug dealers. She is the 10th suspect arrested since the roundup started earlier this month.